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WDC Project: Dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean
The World Dementia Council is organizing a series of high-level roundtables and a summit to bring together leading experts from academia, industry, care, and advocacy to discuss the public policy challenge and develop recommendations. Following the high level summit in spring 2025, a report bringing together the discussions and recommendations will be published.
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WDC Project: Dementia in an Era of TreatmentsTreatments mark a fundamental change for the field and overtime the experience and care of people with dementia. For the first time Alzheimer's disease is treatable. Even if the impact of treatments is limited and, at the moment, is available in only a few countries, this signals the direction of travel for the field and will shape public policy in the decades ahead. The Council will explore the impact of treatments beginning with a series of global dialogues for international experts.
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WDC Project: Hope Realised? The G8 Dementia Goals
Over the next twelve months the Council will hold a series of different events focussed on the commitments made by the G8 at the London dementia summit in 2013. The headline commitment was a disease modifying treatment by 2025. The programme will begin with a virtual workshop for core participants at the 2013 summit reflecting on the progress made and the challenges ahead.
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Past World Dementia Council projects
Read more about World Dementia Council projects that have taken place in previous years.
Our projects are central to our work to keep dementia on the international agenda. Because only through greater global collaboration will it be defeated. No one country or individual alone can meet what is the biggest health challenge facing the international community.